README.rst installation path is wrong about awkward-0.x HOT 6 CLOSED

Is it literally installed in the system's /usr/ directory? It's supposed to go in the Python package, .../python3.x/site- packages/awkward/, i.e. not in any system directory at all.

This configuration is copied from uproot, which needed to ship the README as a part of the distribution for readthedocs documentation. Having it buried in site-packages is an acceptable side-effect, but having it installed in any system directory, including .../share/doc/ is not. Does the same thing happen with an uproot installation?

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Yep, it is literally installed there. Same happens for uproot and uproot-methods.

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I'll fix this as soon as I have access to a computer, which might be tomorrow or Monday.

Thanks for pointing it out.

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I simply removed the data_files line from setup.py of awkward, uproot-methods, and uproot. This line doesn't seem to have been necessary: the PyPI pages of all three projects show the text derived from the README, and I didn't see any issues with pip-installing (tested under Miniconda). It was probably an intermediate step in setting up documentation, and I never realized that it now works without that.

Also, it seems that the consequences of data_files differ from one system to another: on mine, it buried the README under site-packages; it did not put it at /usr/ or $PREFIX. But there were comments on StackOverflow about it going under sys.prefix. Could you test installation on your system, to see if it puts anything on /usr/ anymore?

Thanks!

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I have tested all three packages and README.rst is not installed anymore to the /usr dir.

Thank you!

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Great! Thanks for testing!

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